All this talk and not much action on the reduction in CD count. I did some poking and proding of FC3 to see what we could get it down to. I discovered that base had a bad dependancy issue that cuased much more to be pulled into a base install than was necessary becase kdebindings was claiming ownership of /usr/lib/python2.3. Once I started using base+updates everything sorted itself out nicely. Basicly I require 115mb of RPM's ( decompressed ~250mb in about 45 seconds ) in order to bootstrap a system up to the point where yum becomes usable. I then copy resolv.conf and chroot into the system. I can then run yum install [package] without problem. It turned out to be much easier than I expected and I'm thinking of continuing to use this process moving forward to build a simple yum based net install system in house. I figure I can modify the rescue cd to accomplish this task, possibly having enough room to also add a basic gnome install. I think some of the scripts were failing because of some undeclared dependancies on files that need to be created by an installer, specifically /etc/fstab, so if someone has documentation on bootstrapping a Fedora based system that would be helpful. Cheers, Eric Warnke System Administrator - Research IT SUNY at Albany
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